WATER CONCLAVE - 2016 ATTENDED BY HINDUSTAN ZINC

Mr. Rajeeb Swain - Head Environment presented HZL’s Best practices in Water ,anagement & Stewardship at the Water Conclave - 2016 organized by CII and PHED & Ground Water Department, Govt of Rajasthan on 7 Jul,y 2016 at Jaipur. His presentation highlighted about all HZL units being Zero Liquid Discharge compliant and showcased  various initiatives like Multiple effect evaporators to recover water from the RO rejects effluent, adiabatic coolers to reduce fresh water makeup in process cooling towers, use of deep cone thickeners to reduce evaporation losses from the tailing pond, which are taken to reduce specific water consumption at Mines & Smelters of HZL. He also discussed about Sewage Treatment Plant which is Udaipur’s First Sewage Treatment Plant under PPP (Public Private Partnership) Project and explained how being a Responsible Corporate,  HZL is  helping in cleaning the Lakes and reusing sewage water of city.

HINDUSTAN ZINC RECEIVED IPPAI POWER AWARD-2016

IPPAI awarded Hindustan Zinc with Power Awards 2016 for ‘best innovation in power sector. In a glittering award ceremony held at Hotel Lalit, Goa on 24th September, 2016, the coveted award was presented by Mr. Subramanian (Former Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy) and received by Mr. A.K Singh, GM - DSC CPP, Mr M.S Rathore, Manager – Engineering & Planning (CPP) and Mr. Arindam Ghosh, Engineer – DSC CPP in presence of IPPAI Director General, Mr. Salman Khurshid (former Cabinet Minister) and  senior executives of leading companies.

Hindustan Zinc’s Head Corporate Communication, Pavan Kaushik said “the Company has been able to achieve power sufficiency in its business operations. All the Units are power sufficient and do not depend on the State Grid for power.”

Hindustan Zinc’s wind power generation as a financially and environmentally viable solution for India's rapidly increasing energy requirements. The Company has green energy farms with 274 MW of power generation capacity in Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. The wind power projects have been registered under Clean Development Mechanism of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and are entitled to the carbon credits.

HINDUSTAN ZINC RECOGNIZED AS “NOTEWORTHY WATER EFFICIENT UNIT” DURING “NATIONAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN WATER MANAGEMENT 2016” BY CII

Hindustan Zinc’s Dariba Smelter Complex  has been recognized as “Noteworthy Water Efficient Unit”, “Within the Fence” category during “National Award for Excellence in Water Management 2016” by CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) on 27^th September, 2016 in Delhi at Hotel Le Meridian.

The Award was presented by Dr Anil Kakodkar - Member of BARC  & Chairman of Jury National Award for Excellence in Water Management. 75 Industries applied for the award wherein 21 were short listed and selected after due diligence at site and further presentation before the jury members of the Award Categories. 

Hindustan Zinc has witnessed 16% reduction in water consumption from FY 2011 to FY 2016 with the initiatives like cloud seeding, adiabatic cooling tower, multiple effective evaporator, deep cone thickener, air cooled condensers, sewage treatment plant and rain water harvesting. Hindustan Zinc’s Sewage Treatment Plant under PPP model commissioned in Udaipur is the first sustainable development project of its kind in Rajasthan with a capacity to treat 20 million litres of sewage per day. The Sewage Treatment Plant is bringing substantial reduction in sewage inflow to the lakes.

On behalf of Hindustan Zinc, the award was received by Mr. Manoj Agrawal – AGM, CPP, Mr. Ankit Mishra – AM, Environment  and Mr. Rohit Vijay – AM, Asset Optimisation.